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Anne’s second novel, The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, is about a woman escaping an abusive marriage to find autonomy as an artist. It deals unflinchingly with domestic abuse and infidelity, alcohol and opium addiction, class inequality, and the right of women to choose their own path in life. Nobody had previously written anything like this. “When we have to do with vice and vicious characters, I maintain it is better to depict them as they really are than as they would wish to appear,” Anne wrote in the preface to the novel. It has been said that when the heroine of the novel, Helen Graham, slammed the bedroom door against her husband, “it reverberated throughout Victorian England.” Anne had achieved literary success, and there was the promise of greater things to come, but within a year tragedy struck, as in rapid succession Branwell, Emily, and finally Anne herself died of tuberculosis. Anne was only 29 years old. She spent her last few days in Scarborough, and is buried in St Mary’s churchyard near the Castle and overlooking the sea that she loved so much. Anne’s life and writing are characterised by her personal faith in Christ and by her passionate social concern. Her aim in writing was "to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it”. A scene from the BBC1’s To Walk Invisible by Sally Wainwright, with Anne (centre) played by Charlie Murphy While her poetry and novels lack the Gothic imagination of her more famous sisters, they more than make up for that in her plain speaking about hitherto unmentionable social issues. Here at St James’, it is a privilege for us to be associated with a woman of such courage and shining faith. Lesley Pemberton
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